TIME 100 Most Influentials: Latinos Not So Much

TIME 100 Most Influentials: Latinos Not So Much

Mary Mata April 22, 2013

By Rocio Gonzalez, Voxxi TIME Magazine’s issue on the 100 most influential people in the world is one of the TIME editions I most look forward to every year. There’s […]

Carlos Arredondo, The Man in the Hat at the Boston Marathon, Didn’t Set Out to be Hero

Mary Mata April 16, 2013

By John Newland, NBCLatino It’s an iconic image that captures a moment when one Boston Marathon bystander became much more. With blood-soaked hands and wearing a cowboy hat, Carlos Arredondo helps rush […]

What do Latinos want in a path to citizenship? The same as everyone else

Mary Mata April 12, 2013

By Chris Cillizza and Sean Sullivan, Washington Post Conventional wisdom dictates that the Hispanic community in the United States is far more supportive of overhauling the immigration system and allowing those […]

Latinos Were Some of the First Immigrants in the US

Mary Mata

By Ignacio Torres, NBCLatino Dr. Yadira Perez, Oral Historian from New York City’s Tenement Museum, and Dr. Jose C. Moya, historian at Barnard College, go through our country’s history of […]

Young Latinos’ Changing Attitudes About Money

Mary Mata April 11, 2013

By Hispanically Speaking News As April 15th approaches, everyone who has earned money this year is making sure they’ve given Uncle Sam his due. As a result, it’s that time […]

What The Health Reform Law Means to Latinos Today

Mary Mata

By Hope Gillette, Saludify Almost 10 months have passed since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) made it through the Supreme Court’s scrutiny, paving the way for millions of United States residents […]

Seattle’s Embattled Diaz out as Police Chief

Mary Mata April 9, 2013

By jseattle, Capitol Hill Seattle With news coverage across the city dotted with descriptions including “embattled,” “quiet,” and “Latino,” John Diaz, Seattle’s first minority police chief, stepped down Monday ending a four-year […]

Tapping the STEM Potential of Latinos

Mary Mata April 8, 2013

By Brenda Álvarez, NEA Today When it comes to innovations in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, the United States has had, over the past two centuries, the […]

Latinos Back The National Trend Supporting Legalizing Marijuana

Mary Mata

By Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News Latino For the first time since attitudes began to be tracked, a majority of people in the United States say they now support making the use […]

Latinos Drive Real Estate Comeback

NewsTaco April 4, 2013

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco According to a Hispanic Business article, Latino home buyers are being caught between a dream and a real estate bubble – and that’s making it hard […]